Fictional presidents are worth considering, as they show what the imagination of the position is. Here are some of the best fictional leaders in film. To be a president is one of the most important jobs in the world. The position comes with a ton of pressure, power, and responsibility. Not only does a president […]
Scientists at a university research centre in Turkey claim they have developed an ultra-rapid coronavirus test with 99% accuracy that can return results within 10 seconds – all without needing to take a nasal swab. The Diagnovir, developed by researchers at Bilkent University, is a diagnostic kit said to use nanotechnology to detect COVID-19 in […]
In December, a number of governments that are politically, financially, or totally dependent on Russia, received a certain number of doses of the Russian Sputnik-V covid vaccine. Russian propaganda is now actively exploiting this fact as a pretext for imposing its chemical surrogate onto other countries. For example, Argentina, a country with a population of 45 […]
This has been a devastating year. More than 1.6 million people have died in the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 75 million cases and tens of trillions of dollars in economic damages. Millions of people are out of work and struggling to pay their bills, and more than a billion children are missing out on […]
The pandemic is also a time-out from our usual extrovert-dominated culture. We should make the best of that. Quarantine during a pandemic can be traumatic, it goes without saying. But like all difficult times, it’s not equally harrowing for everybody, and potentially even liberating for some. That includes many in the large minority of the population who […]
Barclays has been hit with a £26m fine for poor treatment of more than 1.5 million struggling borrowers, prompting the City regulator to warn lenders over mistreating customers facing financial hardship during the Covid crisis. Barclays was found to have mistreated business and personal customers who were in financial difficulties and fell behind on credit card […]
The recognition of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine by the Local Church of Cyprus provoked a raging fit in Russia, whose leaders immediately instructed their propaganda pundits to come up with critical works on the subject and go as far as pursue subversive activity in the media space. Russia is now making considerable efforts to […]
Is the incident a product of Islamic terrorism or an act by “third forces”? The terrorist act in Vienna, my second favorite city in Europe after Prague, made me wake up in the middle of the night. I still haven’t had a minute of sleep, studying in detail the events as they unfolded, by minute. […]
Julio Ceasar Mora and his wife Waldramina Maclovia Quinteros have been married for 79 years, and their relationship isn’t the only thing with longevity. He’s 110 years old and she’ll turn 105 in October, making them the oldest married couple in the world with a combined age of 214 years and 358 days. Guinness World […]
(CNN)Are you a pessimist by nature, a “glass half empty” sort of person? That’s not good for your brain. A new study found that repetitive negative thinking in later life was linked to cognitive decline and greater deposits of two harmful proteins responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. “We propose that repetitive negative thinking may be a new […]